The first video games are said to appear around the 50's and would come from the idea of Ralph Bear. The first success for video games comes from the game PONG that allowed the video game industry to develop massively. The number of sales quickly grew up, above all in the USA. At the other side of the Pacific the Nes is a real hit with its most famous game Super Mario Bros!

Nowadays, the video game business has been overwhelming the cinema for a while. Numerous systems on which video games are playable exist, and many games are available on several of them. Video game consoles, cellular phones, computers and even satellite TV can host video games.

The video game industry has evolved a lot, and an American survey states that the fact of playing to action video games incredibly improves the ability to handle the information of images. Moreover, some video games are created to be played by moving the body, such as dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution which is played by dancing on a special carpet, or the Wii console that uses the motion capture and allows child with too much weight to have a physical activity.